Phonological awareness is a way for young children to get ready for reading. There are several things parents can do to help bring their child's awareness to different sounds and words. We do several of these activities and probably don't even realize that they are helpful!
1. Finding the Beat. Clapping out the syllables in words. Apple: A-pple has 2 syllables, so you clap 2 times. Elephant: el-a-fant has 3 syllables, so you clap 3 times. 2. Write the letter and practice the sound the letter makes. For example, write the letter B and talk about the sound /b/. Encourage your child to make the sound the same way you make it. 3. Find something that starts with a sound. Find pictures in books that start with the B sound or play a game such as "I spy" and find something in the room that starts with the B sound. 4. Practice rhyming words. What rhymes with "hat"? Bat, cat, fat, sat, mat, etc. Read stories that have rhyming words. Ask your child "what rhymes with ____?" Nursery rhymes have lots of rhyming words. Maybe you can have your child listen to words and pick out the word that doesn't rhyme. 5. Break apart compound words such as "airplane", "bathtub", "cowboy", "baseball", "sunflower", "railroad", "football", etc. Talk about how 2 different words make 1 word. 6. Word families. Talk about words that end in "it" and then put different sounds in front of the "it". S-it, F-it, L-it, B-it, etc. Words that end in "op" such as H-op, C-op, B-op, ST-op, etc.
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